Blackjack Blackjack (formerly black jack or ''vingt-un'') is a casino banking game. It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as " twenty-one ...

is a popular casino-gambling card game. Black Jack or Blackjack may also refer to:

Places

Australia

Black Jack, Queensland Black Jack is a rural locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly a mining town. In the , Black Jack had a population of 167 people. Geography Black Jack is a triangular-shaped locality. The Great Northern ...

, a locality in Queensland * Black Jack, a civil parish of

Pottinger County Pottinger County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located to the south west of the Namoi River and Mooki River, near Gunnedah. Pottinger County was named in honour of the first Governor of Hong Kong Sir Henry Pott ...

, New South Wales * Black Jack Hill, near

Gunnedah Gunnedah () is a town in north-central New South Wales, Australia and is the seat of the Gunnedah Shire Local government in Australia, local government area. In the the town recorded a population of 8,338. Gunnedah is situated within the Liver ...

, New South Wales

United States

* Black Jack (Red Oak, North Carolina), a historic plantation house * Black Jack, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Black Jack, Kentucky, an unincorporated community *

Black Jack, Missouri Black Jack is a second-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in northern St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 6,929 at the 2010 census. A post office called Black Jack was established in 1872, and operated until 1906. The ...

, a city * Blackjack, Cherokee County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Blackjack, Smith County, Texas, an unincorporated community * The Blackjacks (house), a historic house in Osage County, Oklahoma

People

* Black Jack (nickname) *

Ada Blackjack Ada Blackjack (''née'' Delutuk; May 10, 1898 – May 29, 1983) was an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic expedition to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, eventually living alone on the island for eight months after the o ...

(1898–1983), Iñupiaq woman * Roddy Blackjack (c. 1920–2013), Canadian elder and former Chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation of the Yukon Territory *

Blackjack Lanza John Mortl Lanzo (October 14, 1935 – December 8, 2021) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Blackjack Lanza. Along with his long-term tag team partner, Blackjack Mulligan, Lanza was one-half of The Blackjacks: ...

(1935-2021), ring name of former professional wrestler John Lanza *

Blackjack Mulligan Robert Deroy Windham (November 25, 1942 – April 7, 2016), better known by his ring name Blackjack Mulligan, was an American professional wrestler and American football player. He was the father of wrestlers Barry and Kendall Windham, father- ...

(1942–2016), ring name of former professional wrestler Robert Jack Windham * "Blackjack" Hoss Taylor, a professional wrestler from

All-Star Wrestling All Star Wrestling (ASW), also known as Super Slam Wrestling (SSW), is a British professional wrestling promotion founded by Brian Dixon in 1970 and based in Birkenhead, England. Founded as Wrestling Enterprises of Birkenhead in October 1970, i ...

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Black Jack (manga character) is a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka, introduced in ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' on November 19, 1973. He is the main character in the '' Black Jack'' manga franchise. His odd appearance comes from a childhood incident, in which both ...

, the main character of the 1973 manga series of the same name * Blackjack (''Transformers''), a fictional character in the ''Transformers'' universe *Nickname for Jonathon Randal, a supporting character in ''Outlander'' *John "Black Jack" Geary, the main character in

The Lost Fleet The Lost Fleet is a military science fiction series written by John G. Hemry under the pen name Jack Campbell. The series is set one-hundred-plus years into an interstellar war between two different human cultures, the Alliance and the Syndica ...

series of novels

Films

* ''Black Jack'' (1927 film), an American silent Western film * ''Black Jack'' (1950 film), written and directed by Julien Duvivier * ''Black Jack'' (1968 film), a spaghetti western * ''Black Jack'' (1979 film), by Ken Loach * ''Blackjack'' (1978 film), an American crime drama film * ''Blackjack'' (1990 film), directed by Colin Nutley * ''Blackjack'' (1998 film), a TV movie directed by John Woo * ''BlackJack'' (film series) (2003–2007), a series of Australian seven TV movies starring Colin Friels

Games and cards

* Black Jack (Hearts), a variant of Hearts *

Black Jack (Switch) Switch (also called Two Four Jacks or Black Jack, or Last Card in New Zealand) is a Shedding-type game, shedding-type card game for two or more players that is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland and as alternative incarnations in other regio ...

, also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom * A

jack (playing card) A Jack or Knave, in some games referred to as a Bower, in Tarot card games as a Valet, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress generally assoc ...

from a black suit, a ''jack of clubs'' or ''jack of spades'' * ''Blackjack'' (Atari 2600 video game), a video game cartridge developed by Atari * ''Blackjack'', an NES video game developed by Odyssey Software; See

American Video Entertainment American Video Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game company based in San Jose, California. The company developed unlicensed video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The company developed two games on its own, ''Dudes with Att ...

Literature

* ''Black Jack'' (manga), a 1973 manga series by Osamu Tezuka * "Black Jack", a short story by Rudyard Kipling in the collection ''

Soldiers Three ''Soldiers Three'' is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection ''Plain Tales from the Hills''. The current version ...

'' * ''Black Jack'', a 2003 novel by Finnish writer

Reijo Mäki Reijo Juhani Mäki (born 12 October 1958) is a Finnish writer of crime fiction. Career Mäki published his first novel ''Enkelipölyä'' in 1985. His most well-known character is private detective Jussi Vares who was first introduced in the ...

* ''Black Jack'', a 1968 historical fiction novel by English writer Leon Garfield

Music

* Blackjack, a 21-note scale in the

miracle temperament George Secor (November 8, 1943 – March 2, 2020) was an American musician, composer and music-theorist from Chicago. He was the discoverer of miracle temperament and eponym of the secor. As an inventor, Secor and Hermann Pedtke's ''Motorola Scal ...

Groups

* Black Jack (Chilean band), a Chilean rock band * Black Jack (Australian band), an Australian heavy metal band * Blackjack (American band), an American rock band * BlackJack (Swedish band), a Swedish dansband

Albums

* ''Blackjack'' (Blackjack album), by the American band, 1979 * ''Blackjack'' (Donald Byrd album), 1968

Songs

* "Black Jack", by The Hives from '' Barely Legal'' * "Black Jack", by Junkie XL from '' Big Sounds of the Drags'' * "Black Jacks", by Girls Aloud from '' Tangled Up'' * "Blackjack", by Airbourne from '' Runnin' Wild'' * "Blackjack", by Aminé from '' OnePointFive'' * "Blackjack", by Death Grips from '' The Money Store'' * "Blackjack", by Everclear from ''

Slow Motion Daydream ''Slow Motion Daydream'' is the sixth studio album by Everclear. It was released in the U.S. in 2003 on Capitol Records and recorded in 2002. Production The first single released to radio from ''Slow Motion Daydream'' was " Volvo Driving Socce ...

'' * "Blackjack", by Ray Charles from '' Yes Indeed!''

Television

* "Black Jack" (''Jericho''), a 2007 episode of the television series ''Jericho'' * Blackjack (Fear the Walking Dead), a 2018 episode of ''Fear the Walking Dead'' * "BlackJack", a 2007 episode of ''

SpongeBob SquarePants ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' is an American animated television series, animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It first aired as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids' C ...

'' * "Blackjack", an episode of the TV series ''

The Adventures of Ellery Queen ''The Adventures of Ellery Queen'' is the title of two separate television series made in the 1950s. They are based on the fictional detective Ellery Queen and the cases he solves with his father Inspector Richard Queen. ''The Adventures of Ell ...

Brands and enterprises

Black Jack (confectionery) Black Jack is a type of "aniseed flavour chew" according to its packaging. It is a chewy confectionery manufactured under Valeo Confectionery's Barratt brand in UK and Spain. Introduced in the 1920s by Trebor, the wrapper originally showed gol ...

, aniseed flavour chews *

Black Jack (gum) Black Jack is an aniseed-flavored chewing gum manufactured by the American company, Gerrit J. Verburg Co. In 1869, exiled former Mexican president and general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (famous for losing the Texas War of Independence) was liv ...

, a brand of chewing gum * BlackJack (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung ** BlackJack II (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung *

Blackjack Pizza Blackjack Pizza is a Colorado-based pizza delivery chain founded in 1983 by a former Domino's Pizza employee, Vince Schmuhl, because Domino's Pizza was the only major pizza delivery company in the Rocky Mountain region and he thought customers w ...

, a chain of pizza delivery restaurants in Colorado, US

Military and law enforcement

Blackjack (weapon) A baton (also truncheon, nightstick, billy club, billystick, cosh, ''lathi'', or simply stick) is a roughly cylindrical Club (weapon), club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a Use of force, compliance tool and self-defe ...

, a type of baton for law enforcement * RQ-21 Blackjack, a small tactical unmanned air system * Black Jack Brigade, nickname of the U.S.

2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (the "Black Jack Brigade") is a cavalry unit of the United States Army based in Fort Cavazos, Texas. Current Units * Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (HHT) 2nd Brigade Combat Team (2nd BCT) ...

Tupolev Tu-160 The Tupolev Tu-160 (; NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing nuclear-capable heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The aircra ...

(NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber * VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron *

Battle of Black Jack The Battle of Black Jack took place on June 2, 1856, when antislavery forces, led by the noted abolitionist John Brown, attacked the encampment of Henry C. Pate near Baldwin City, Kansas. The battle is cited as one incident of "Bleeding Kan ...

, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War * National Society of Blackjacks, a High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership program in the United States

Science

Black jack (fish) ''Caranx lugubris'', the black jack, black trevally, black kingfish, coal fish or black ulua, is a species of large ocean fish in the jack Family (biology), family Carangidae. The species has a circumtropical distribution, found in oceanic, off ...

(''Caranx lugubris''), a gamefish *

Blackjack oak ''Quercus marilandica'', the blackjack oak, is a small oak, one of the red oak group ''Quercus'' sect. ''Lobatae''. It is native to the eastern and central United States. Description ''Quercus marilandica'' is a small deciduous tree growing to ...

or ''Quercus marilandica'', a small tree * Black jack, often weedy plants of the genus ''

Bidens ''Bidens'' is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae.''Bidens''.
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'' from the family of Asteraceae *

Sphalerite Sphalerite is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula . It is the most important ore of zinc. Sphalerite is found in a variety of deposit types, but it is primarily in Sedimentary exhalative deposits, sedimentary exhalative, Carbonate-hoste ...

, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners

Sports

* Berlin Blackjacks, a short-lived team in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey * Ottawa BlackJacks, a team in the Canadian Elite Basketball League

Other uses

Black Jack (horse) A black (horse), black Morgan horse, Morgan-American Quarter Horse cross, Black Jack served in the Caisson Platoon of the 3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). He was the riderless horse ...

(1947–1976), a horse used in U.S. Armed Forces full honors funerals *

Black Jack (stamp) Black Jack or Blackjack was the 2-cent denomination United States postage stamp issued from July 1, 1863 to 1869, is generally referred to as the "Black Jack" due to the large portraiture of the United States President Andrew Jackson on its face ...

, a United States postage stamp * STV ''Black Jack'', a 1904 Canadian brigantine sailing ship * The Blackjacks, a professional wrestling tag team